Colorful Sunrise
The Viking 1 lander snapped this image of sunrise during its six-year run on the surface of Mars. It landed…
Contact!
This is the first color picture ever transmitted from the surface of Mars. The Viking 1 lander beamed the image…
Ready for a Blast
The star system T Coronae Borealis is due for a massive eruption, as depicted in this illustration. The system consists…
The Coathanger
This image shows the Coathanger — a pattern of 10 stars that really does resemble a coat hanger. It’s in…
Deep Heating
Saturn, shown here in a view from the Cassini spacecraft, radiates more heat into space than it receives from the…
Beautiful Infants
Streamers of gas and dust surround the embryonic star system FS Tauri in this image from James Webb Space Telescope.…
Solar Handle
What looks like a wide “handle” at the upper right edge of the Sun’s disk is actually a massive eruption…
Busy Heart
Many millions of stars pack this view of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The stars form vast clouds,…
Maw of a Black Hole
Streamers of hot gas swirl into the maw of a black hole in this artist’s concept of GRO J1655-40, a…
Star Cocoon
Like a cosmic butterfly, a cluster of young stars is just emerging from its cocoon — a cloud of gas…